ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,082, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Jongsub Lee (Sungnam-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jueon Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device includes comprising an inner wall and an outer wall, wherein the inner wall defines an insert space configured to accommodate insertion of an aerosol-generating member, and wherein a chamber configured to store liquid is defined between the inner wall and the outer wa...